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Since Sharp are now duly executing a programme to provide at least two major updates (OS upgrades) within a period of two years, Japanese carriers are announcing which models will receive the upgrade to Android 9.0 Pie. Upgrades will not beging to roll out before late November 2018, but will most likely...

Sharp presented their first OLED display phone at the IFA 2018 in Berlin. The display is advertised as "truly flexible" and has a "full-curved surface design" for a 3D effect.

Apparently Sharp didn't say much about the new device, just let visitors play with it and marvel at the screen. The phone was...

Sharp have further improved their LCD displays solving the problem of reflected light that makes it difficult to view your smartphone's display in sunlight.

A low-reflection film called AR film is attached to the surface of the LCD panel, which significantly decreases surface reflectance and also improves...

Sharp Japan have developed a transparent NFC antenna that can be right built into the device's display. This enables payment and authentication by simply holding an NFC-compatible smartphone or IC-card over the dispay interface.

Because the NFC antenna is transparent, it can be integrated into the...

Sharp's CEO made an announcement last September that the company would be making a new attempt at the European market. Now, some eight months later, a line-up leak confirms these intentions – backed by the huge funding and manufacturing base of Foxconn, Sharp smartphones are more likely than ever to...

The initial report by market analyst BCN Retail, published in the beginning of December 2017, and covering the period between July and October 2017, situated Sharp as the smartphone market leader in Japan with 19.1%, followed closely by Sony with 17.9%. Ranking third was Huawei with 15.8% of sales,...

Less than a month after the official launch of the Aquos S2 (in three versions), already a new device, the successor Aquos S3 is rumoured.

Designer Blanche Lee (a.k.a. Conceptcreator) has created this concept video based on the leaked image. There has been no offical announcement, however, so all this...

Two of Sharp's most recent smartphones, the Aquos Ever SH-02J by Docomo, and the Aquos U SHV37 by AU feature the next generation IGZO display where the touch panel module (the digitizer) has been integrated into the liquid crystal display, the so called in-cell touch type display.

The typical LCD structure...

At the CEATEC 2016 exhibition, Sharp showcased a prototype smartphone with a rounded-corners display, dubbed Corner R, rounded on all three sides, unlike the two-sided rounding seen on Samsung's Edge series.

The curved-edge completely bezel-less display is of the IGZO low-energy-consumption LCD type...

Docomo's Aquos Ever SH-04G and Aquos Zeta SH-01H received the internationally recognised Red Dot Product Design Award for 2016. The two smartphones were elected winners for best design innovations in the Communications category.

Both the SH-04G and the SH-01H, as well as quite a few other models by...

Docomo have announced the phone models that will be getting the Android 6.0 upgrade. The Sharp-made phones are:

• AQUOS ZETA SH-03G
• AQUOS ZETA SH-01H
• AQUOS Compact SH-02H

The SH-01H and SH-02H OS version up rolled out on 21st June 2016. The SH-03G upgrade began on 8th August 2016. Source.

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SIMロック解除

Finally, Japanese phones can now be SIM unlocked without much hassle and without paying a fortune*. The new regulations requiring each carrier to unlock a phone upon request are effective from May 2015. Here are the details.

1. You can only apply for a SIM unlock if your phone is...

Sharp have begun mass-producing a new type of display for smartphones and portable devices, the in-cell type touch display. Devices employing this should soon start to emerge – both by Sharp, and by the numerous other smartphone manufacturers who purchase their displays from the Japanese manufacturer....